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… County Donegal, Ireland, on 30 October 1873, the son of James Gallagher, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Maria … sailed from Belfast on the Lady Jocelyn in the second party of emigrants for George Vesey Stewart 's Katikati Special … local renown as an athlete spread when he went to Auckland and became serious about rugby football. By now six …
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… Mary Etheldred Pulling was founding headmistress of the Diocesan High School for Girls in Auckland. Born at Belchamp St Paul, Essex, England, on 26 …
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… was born in Invercargill on 17 October 1902, the son of Alfred Sanders, an accountant, and his wife, Margaret … was educated at Southland Boys' High School, and at the age of 15 was employed as a clerk by the law firm of Frederick … at the New Zealand Bible Training Institute (NZBTI) in Auckland. His study ended abruptly in October 1924 when his …
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… was born on 10 March 1897 in Kosarnido, Croatia, then part of Austria–Hungary. He was the son of Antun Tomasevic, a farm labourer, and his wife, Ane … quarry and worked on road construction in Mt Roskill, Auckland. He became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in …
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… Willis was born on 20 June 1842 at London, England, the son of Matilda Wills and her husband, John Willis, who died soon … his passage to New Zealand on the Dinapore , arriving at Auckland on 5 August 1857. In Auckland Willis met James … the river boat era on the Wanganui River, being a founding director of the Wanganui River Steam Navigation …
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… was born at Te Awamutu on 3 April 1878, the second child of Emily Adela Malcolm and her Irish-born husband, … Her aunt, Fanny Osborne, was a well-known painter of New Zealand flora. Adele, as she preferred to be known, … Christchurch on 1 August 1905, they lived in Hamilton, then Auckland. Adele continued to paint and draw, and in 1909 she …
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… known as a dairy. Many are on street corners, so they are often referred to as the ‘corner dairy’. From the early … were also allowed to open on Sundays. During the depression of the 1930s many people built a room onto the front of … on holidays. A study of a group of dairies in Onehunga, Auckland, in the late 1970s found that none of the 14 dairy …
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Part of story: Food shops
… shrubs with small, hard leaves (sclerophylls). Many of these belong to the heath family (Ericaceae). In other countries, this type of vegetation is known as heathland. In New Zealand it is … South Island, Stewart Island, Chatham, Campbell and Auckland islands heathlands on young volcanic materials – …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… Churches and Christian community organisations set up many of the first orphanages and institutions for the poor, sick, … temperance, the campaign against the sale and consumption of alcohol. The first temperance societies were aimed at … in 1843), Bands of Hope aimed at young people (first in Auckland in 1859), Sons and Daughters of Temperance (1871) …
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Part of story: Interdenominational Christianity
… John Cowie was born in Mount Roskill, Auckland, on 30 March 1912, the son of Scottish parents Elizabeth Cromb Reoch and her husband, … Shield in 1932–33, but did not become a regular member of the side until 1934–35. His ability to beat and dismiss …
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… born in Launceston, Tasmania, on 17 November 1866, the son of Richard Porrett Dix, a chemist, and his wife, Emma … in the tea industry. In 1891 his work brought him to Auckland, New Zealand, where, over the next few years, he … soon involved in amateur theatricals, becoming secretary of both the Auckland Amateur Opera Club and the Auckland …
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… Groups like chambers of commerce and publicly funded economic development … are found in most centres throughout the country. Chambers of commerce Chambers of commerce were the first … groups in New Zealand – the earliest were set up in Auckland and Wellington in 1856, and Nelson in 1858. They …
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Part of story: City boosters and promoters
… that ‘because I wasn’t the birth mother, [for] want of a better word, to me it was extremely important that I … 1 However, the law with respect to parenting is not free of discrimination. Only married or single people can adopt … 1979) and Circe United football club (founded 1980) in Auckland have been notable lesbian sports teams. The Lesbian …
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Part of story: Lesbian lives
… Born in Ponsonby, Auckland, on 13 May 1894, Daniel Joseph Augustine O'Connor was the son of Lena Agnes Martin and her husband, Timothy Beehane O'Connor, a contractor. Part of a large Irish Catholic family, he grew up in an …
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… is some confusion between the two quite separate forms of cheerleading. Dance-style cheerleading Female … performing dance moves, have appeared at major fixtures of men’s professional sports as part of the entertainment … performed to music. The All Stars Cheerleaders, founded in Auckland in 1999 by Kimberley Ramsay, dominate the sport in …
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Part of story: Marching teams and cheerleaders
… European settlers with a strong tradition of winemaking and wine drinking played a key role in New Zealand’s wine industry. French The first generation of French settlers at Akaroa in the early 1840s planted … migrant Israel Wendel planted a vineyard around his Auckland home in the 1870s. He later opened Wendel’s Wine …
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Part of story: Wine
… hostility, and to promote Indian values and culture. The Auckland Indian Association was the first such organisation, … was formed in 1926–27 to respond to the propaganda of the racist White New Zealand League, and to provide a … for the regional associations. Nowadays, with the exception of the Sikh-oriented Taumarunui association, the Indian …
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Part of story: Indians
… humans arrived. The bird was still widespread at the end of the 19th century, but numbers plummeted from the 1920s. On Stewart Island this coincided with the spread of feral cats, and on the mainland with a wider range of … then transferred to sites where predators are controlled. Auckland Island teal The Auckland Island teal ( Anas …
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Part of story: Wetland birds
… a comeback as venues for a developing local amateur and professional theatre sector and for introducing new … was Dunedin’s Globe Theatre. It was built in the house of Patric and Rosalie Carey, who extended their living room … existing theatres or converted buildings into theatres: Auckland’s Mercury Theatre was housed in the Mercury Theatre …
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Part of story: Theatres, cinemas and halls
… In a varied career as a farmer, land owner, contractor, man of affairs, politician and diplomatist, he displayed both high-minded altruism and blatant skulduggery. The son of Patrick Lundon, a shoemaker, and his wife, Ellen Hennesy, … 1828. He came to New Zealand with his family, arriving at Auckland on the Westminster on 1 April 1843. He started work …
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